Hm. I've looked in the old localebin and new locales packages and neither of them contain msgfmt, so now I'm really stumped. Where does msgfmt come from?
Ben. On Sat, 6 Sep 1997, Synergistic Effect wrote: > I have a mixed libc5/libc6 system that is fairly up-to-date with unstable. > > I'm having trouble compiling KDE from source which I think relates to the > fact that I don't have a locales package. If I try selecting locales, I > get the following: > > _* Std admin locales Locale data files and utilities. > **- Req base libc5 The Linux C library version 5 (run-time > libraries > U*- Opt libs tcl76 The Tool Command Language (TCL) v7.6 - libc5 > Run- > U*- Opt libs tk42 The Tk toolkit for TCL and X11 v4.2 - libc5 > Run-T > **- Xtr non-free xsnow Snow in your X server > **- Std mail biff a mail notification tool > **- Opt contrib gimp-plugins A set of fairly "standard" plug-ins for the > GIMP. > **- Req base sysklogd Kernel and system logging daemons > **- Opt non-free pine An e-mail reader with MIME and IMAP support. > **- Opt net wu-ftpd A powerful replacement for the standard ftpd > locales not installed; install (was: purge). Standard > libc5 conflicts with locales (<= 2.0.4-1) > > Without locales installed on my system, however, the make bombs out in > the middle of building kdebase complaining that it can't find "msgfmt", > which I believe, from speaking with friends with RedHat, is part of > locales support. > > What do I do here? I'm too deeply into libc6 to back that out. I can't > live without the libc5 apps that locales disagrees with above. Can I fall > back to an older locales? Can I install locales anyway? > > Finally, I had one other little snag with KDE. I installed qt-dev in > with a --force-depends in spite of the fact that it said it required > libc5-dev. I do have libc5-altdev on my system. Is this OK? > > Ben. > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
